Marsh Tales: Market Hunting, Duck Trapping, and Gunning

By William N. Smith

Marsh Tales is a delight, a sort of oral history of the outlaw gunners and other salty oldtime waterfowlers that for the first time gives me the flavor of their speech, the feeling of, yes, this is the way it must have been. Don't expect any apologies here -- this is a book about life as it was lived in another time, ribald, salty, anti-authoritarian and lawless. -- Gray's Sporting JournalMore than a hundred stories are gathered here, full of adventure, high jinks, and one-step-ahead-of-the-warden mischief, along with pictures and brief biographies of the fifteen men who told them.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0870333380
• ISBN13: 9780870333385
• Release Date: January 1985
• Publisher: Tidewater Publishers
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 1.0" x 6.3"

Customer Reviews

I enjoyed learning about market hunters and their tools.

I am always looking for books on the sport of waterfowling and it's history. This book was very enjoyable as it talked of a way of life many years ago; not only about those men who participated as market hunters, but of the tools of their trade. As a modern waterfowler, I blamed the lack of game on these people of the past. From reading this book I learned not to blame them, but rather understand why they did what they did. I have a different outlook now. I would suggest reading The Outlaw Gunner and The Last of the Market Hunters